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USA Today Premieres Season Two of ‘VRtually There’

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On board one of the last flights of Goodyear’s GZ-20 model blimp or hang gliding in Hawaii, you can now experience season two of USA Today’s “VRtually There” series. VRtually There” is accessible on the USA TODAY app, YouTube app, Google Play store, Daydream, and YouTube.com/vrtuallythere.

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Award-winning Mobile Meditation App ‘Calm’ Comes to Oculus Go & Gear VR

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Rated Apple’s 2017 App of the Year and Google Play’s 2018 Editor’s Choice Award winner, the original mobile version of Calm has celebrated a measure of success over the years with its growing list of soothing guided meditation routines and nighttime stories to put a restless mind to bed. director of product Tony Hsieh. “It

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Matterport’s 3D camera has been used to map a vast collection of places, from a Maori village in New Zealand to a huge lava tube in Hawaii. CoreVR will be available on Matterport Apps on Google Cardboard and the Samsung Gear VR with more platform options “coming soon.”

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USA Today’s VRtually There Gets A Full Second Season

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We don’t have any specific insight on the five content areas that VRtually There’s second season will focus on but, considering it mirror’s the debut episode, it stands to reason that the Hawaii hang-gliding focus on the first episode of season two means extreme sports did well with USA Today’s VR audience.

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Qualcomm Q3 Earnings Look to Meta, OPPO XR Partnerships

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In the future, we look forward to deepening our collaboration with OPPO to stimulate more innovations in the MR ecosystem” The news comes ahead of the firm’s Snapdragon Summit on 24 – 26 October in Maui, Hawaii. This will incur billions in costs for many companies in the XR space race.

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Google Launches Earth VR on HTC Vive, A Breathtaking New Way to Know Our Planet

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Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world. I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. ” “Go to Hawaii!” Google Earth made the world tangible in a way we’d never known it. It feels robust.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

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” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. That is, it doesn’t want to become a company whose revenue is based on advertisement, as Facebook or Google; The MagicVerse is not a closed ecosystem : it should be accessible by various devices, that all collaborate one with the others.